18.12.2023
Almost 100 Journalists Killed And 400 Imprisoned In 2023, Says Report
The International Federation of Journalists records that 94 journalists and media workers, including 9 women, have been killed in 2023. Since 7 October, more than one journalist a day has lost their lives during the war in Gaza, a scale and pace of loss of media professionals’ lives without precedent. Publishing ahead of International Human Rights Day, on the 10th December, the IFJ insists that far greater action is required from the international community to safeguard journalists’ lives and hold to account their attackers. Sixty-one Palestinian journalists were killed in the Gaza strip. Four Israeli journalists were killed in the first hours of the Hamas attack on 7 October: two during the Supernova music festival and two were murdered in the kibbutzes of Nahal Oz and Kfar Aza. Three Lebanese journalists were killed on 13 October and 21 November in Israeli shootings while filming a report on the border between the two countries. In Europe, Ukraine remains a dangerous country for journalists. This year three journalists and media workers - Ukrainian (1), Russian (1) and French (1) - have been killed in the Ukrainian war. In 2023, the IFJ's list of imprisoned journalists casts light on a continuum of political repression in countries, from China to Belarus, from Egypt to Iran, including Myanmar, Turkey and Russia with a significant increase of jailed journalists recorded in the last three years. Such judicial bullying is clearly designed to silence the media and suppress demonstrations in favour of freedom. Journalists continue to be among the first victims of this repression, with a record of 393 journalists and media workers currently behind bars. China and Hong Kong top the list with 80 journalists in jail, followed by Myanmar (54), Turkey (41), Russia and occupied Crimea (40), Belarus (35), Egypt (23), Vietnam (18), Saudi Arabia (11), India (10) and Syria (9). Credit: WION
Poverty deprives people of adequate education, health care and of life's most basic necessities- safe living conditions (including clean air and clean drinking water) and an adequate food supply. The developed (industrialized) countries today account for roughly 20 percent of the world's population but control about 80 percent of the world's wealth.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
Poverty and pollution seem to operate in a vicious cycle that, so far, has been hard to break. Even in the developed nations, the gap between the rich and the poor is evident in their respective social and environmental conditions.
